Daniel Everett: why the Piraha have no word for worry (clip)

Name: Daniel Everett: why the Piraha have no word for worry (clip)
Uploaded: 2026-09-02T19:00:00+00:00
Duration: 3 min 15 s
Description: Daniel Everett spent decades with the Piraha in the Amazon and came back with something he did not expect. No depression. No suicide. No word for worry. In

From the channel: Why This Amazonian Tribe Lacks Depression and Suicide

With Daniel Everett

Daniel Everett spent decades with the Piraha in the Amazon and came back with something he did not expect. No depression. No suicide. No word for worry. In this clip he tells Dr. Tara Perry what happened when he tried to explain despair to people who had never organized their lives around it, and what they called a mind that lives in the past and the future: a crooked head.

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